SAGA Workshop 2013

from October, 24-25th 2013 at Bielefeld University, Germany

Motivation:

With recent technical progress and the miniaturization of electronic devices, mobile eye tracking has become more and more popular in recent years. Whereas the presentation software of eye trackers is flexible and robust, permitting indoor and outdoor studies, software and techniques for the analysis of the recorded scene video and gaze data are still in their infancy. Existing software provides various analysis function for still images, but lack solutions when it comes to the analysis of complex dynamic scenes, which require a cumbersome installation of markers in the scene. In order to analyze the data, the scene video has to be manually annotated – a very time consuming (frame-by-frame) and error-prone process, which suffers from subjectiveness, fatigue of annotators and changes in the annotation schemata.

Aims:

In order to address these topics, we will carry out an international workshop SAGA 2013 (Solutions for Automatic Gaze-Data Analysis) at Bielefeld University, Germany . SAGA 2013 will focus on automatic solutions for gaze videos as a trailblazer for mobile eye-based interaction and eye-based context-awareness. We are providing a forum for researchers and industrialists from human-computer interaction, robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, context-aware computing, and eye tracking to discuss techniques and applications that go beyond classical eye tracking and stationary eye-based interaction. We want to stimulate and explore the creativity of these communities with respect to the implications, key research challenges, and new techniques and application areas. The long-term goal is to create a strong interdisciplinary research community linking these fields together and to establish the workshop as the premier forum for research on automatic annotation of gaze videos.